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{{infobox person<br />
|name=ANM Golam Mostafa<br />
|native_name=আনম গোলাম মোস্তফা<br />
|native_name_lang=bn<br />
|birth_date=1942<br />
|birth_place=[[Nilphamari]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
|death_date={{death date and age|1971|12|14|1942|df=y}}<br />
|death_place=[[Nakhalpara]], [[Dhaka Division|Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br />
|known_for=[[1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals|Martyred Intellectual]]<br />
}}<br />
'''ANM Golam Mostafa''', (1942 – 14 December 1971) was a martyred Bengali journalist.<ref name=Newage_Son/><ref name=Dailystar_Day/><br />
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== Early life and career==<br />
Mostofa was born in 1942 in Pangagram in Nilphamari district. He graduated from Surendranath College in 1963. He completed his master's degree from University of Dhaka in 1965.<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Mostafa,_ANM_Gholam}}</ref><br />
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Mostafa, a sub-editor of ''Dainik Purbadesh'', was an outspoken person known for his secular views.<ref name=Newage_Son>{{cite news|title=Son testifies, Golam Mostafa was picked up, killed by Ashraf, Mueen|url=http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2013-08-15&nid=61013#.UqFiM8Rwrng|access-date=6 December 2013|newspaper=New Age|date=15 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210235541/http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2013-08-15&nid=61013#.UqFiM8Rwrng|archive-date=10 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Dhakatribune_Might/><br />
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==Participation in Bengali movements==<br />
Mostafa suffer imprisonment for taking part anti-Ayub mass movement in 1969. According to [[Kamal Lohani]], Mostofa started believing from late 1970 that the then East Pakistan would be independent and that Mostafa was the first to call East Pakistan, ‘Bangladesh.’<ref name=Newage_Son/><br />
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==Death==<br />
Mostafa's son Anirban Mostafa was only nine months old when some armed [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al-Badr]] men abducted his father from their Gopibagh house on 11 December 1971.<ref name=Dailystar_Day>{{cite news|title=Day he waited so long for|last=Habib|first=Wasim Bin|<br />
url=http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/day-he-waited-so-long-for/|access-date=6 December 2013|newspaper=Daily Star|date=4 November 2013}}</ref> Golam Mostafa never returned home, neither was his body ever found.<ref name=Dhakatribune_Might>{{cite news|last=Chakma|first=Muktasree|title=Might of their pens scared al-Badr|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/law-amp-rights/2013/nov/04/might-their-pens-scared-al-badr| access-date=6 December 2013|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|date=4 November 2013}}</ref><br />
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On 3 November 2013, [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]], a Muslim leader based in London, and [[Ashrafuz Zaman Khan]], based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – six journalists including Golam Mostafa, nine [[Dhaka University]] teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.<ref name=Independent1>{{cite news|last=Chowdhury|first=Syed Tashfin|title=UK Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin sentenced to death in Bangladesh|<br />
url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uk-muslim-leader-chowdhury-mueen-uddin-sentenced-to-death-in-bangladesh-8919895.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220506/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uk-muslim-leader-chowdhury-mueen-uddin-sentenced-to-death-in-bangladesh-8919895.html |archive-date=2022-05-06 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=7 November 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=3 November 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Mueenuddin and Golam Mostafa were colleagues at the daily Purbadesh in 1971.<ref name=Dhakatribune_Might/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[1971 Bangladesh atrocities]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1942 births]]<br />
[[Category:1971 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Bangladeshi murder victims]]<br />
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